Description
Overview
MicroToner by TAQSIM is a powerful MIDI plugin designed to liberate your virtual instruments from the constraints of the standard twelve-tone equal temperament scale. By acting as a digital version of traditional Oriental scale converters, MicroToner allows producers and composers to effortlessly integrate microtonal scales into any project.
Rather than relying on the limited internal tuning capabilities of individual synthesizers, MicroToner modifies MIDI Pitch Bend data in real-time. This innovative approach enables almost any virtual instrument to play authentic microtones, effectively teaching your existing plugin library a new musical language.
Key Details
- Microtonal Translation: Converts standard MIDI input into microtonal pitches by manipulating pitch bend data, bypassing the need for complex per-plugin tuning.
- Global Scale Library: Includes an extensive library of microtonal scales inspired by Middle Eastern musical traditions and other global tonalities.
- Universal Application: Works across a vast array of software instruments, including industry standards like Kontakt, Serum, Nexus, and Retrologue 2.
- Flexible Deployment: Available as both a plugin within your DAW and as a standalone application.
Use Cases
- World Music Production: Easily compose authentic Arabic, Turkish, or Persian melodies using your favorite modern VSTs.
- Experimental Composition: Break away from Western harmonic structures to explore avant-garde or non-traditional tuning systems.
- Solving Tuning Inaccuracies: Provides a consistent solution for instruments that have native micro-tuning but suffer from inaccuracies, particularly when using portamento settings.
- Hybrid Workflows: Use as a MIDI effect to route microtonal data to multiple instruments simultaneously for cohesive ensemble tuning.
Installation
MicroToner is delivered as a digital software license and download. Once downloaded, the installer allows you to choose the plugin formats required for your specific DAW. Depending on your host, it can be inserted as an instrument plugin or as a MIDI effect plugin to process data before it reaches your sound source.
Compatibility
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, iOS (iPad)
- Plugin Formats: VST, AU, AAX, AU3
- DAW Support:
- As Instrument Plugin: Cubase, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Studio One
- As MIDI Effect Plugin: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reaper, Pro Tools
- iOS Integration: Compatible with major iPad apps such as AUM.
Additional Details
- Manufacturer: TAQSIM
- Delivery Format: Digital software license and download
- Delivery Format: Download / Digital License
- Platform: Windows, macOS, iOS
- Plug-in Formats: VST, AU, AAX, AU3
- Plug-in Formats: VST, AU, AAX
- SKU: 1423-1001
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, iOS
- Requirements Source: manufacturer or supplier product documentation (https://taqs.im/).
- Requirements Source: manufacturer or supplier product documentation (https://taqs.im/microtoner/).
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